Windows 10: Reset and Clear Taskbar Pinned Apps in Windows 10

Hello woldsweather, *Smile

Did you notice explorer restarting when you ran the .bat file?

If you like, manually delete the items in the blue note box at the top of the tutorial, and restart the explorer process (or restart computer) to manually clear pinned apps on the taskbar.

 

I didn't notice explorer restaring bu then I am never sure what explorer is when they say open explorer? I have navigated
to Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Taskband
but don't see any entries that look like task bar items.

 

The tutorial is the first post on the first page of this thread. *Smile

 

An example I have a firefox icon pinned to the taskbar that doesn't work. I navigate to start items - firefox, then only option is to pin to taskbar. I now have one working icon and one not working that I would like to remove.

 

Deleting both the two items below and restarting the computer afterwards should clear pinned apps on your taskbar. These are the two items the .bat file should have deleted for you, but for some reason didn't.

Delete this key in the registry:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Taskband

Delete this folder:
%AppData%\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch\User Pinned\TaskBar

 

Hey, So here comes my first post (or reply) to this forum.
I had the same issue that whenever I restart my PC, the Edge icon and Store icon where reappearing to the taskbar even if they were unpinned each time I login.
The shortcuts for them were not present at %AppData%\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch\User Pinned\Taskbar folder.

In search of the answer, I came across Tenforums and registered myself. After going back and forth to few threads I landed to the registry location Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Explorer



It seemed that the taskbar and tile layout was overwritten by the xml file mentioned in StartLayoutFile registry.

So I opened the XML from the location
%AppData%\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Shell\LayoutModification.xml

It contained following section:
<CustomTaskbarLayoutCollection PinListPlacement="Replace">
<defaultlayout:TaskbarLayout>
<taskbar:TaskbarPinList>
<taskbar:UWA AppUserModelID="Microsoft.MicrosoftEdge_8wekyb3d8bbwe!MicrosoftEdge" />
<taskbar: DesktopApp DesktopApplicationLinkPath="%APPDATA%\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\System Tools\File Explorer.lnk" />
<taskbar:UWA AppUserModelID="Microsoft.WindowsStore_8wekyb3d8bbwe!App" />
</taskbar:TaskbarPinList>
</defaultlayout:TaskbarLayout>
</CustomTaskbarLayoutCollection>

I deleted entries regarding Microsft Edge and Microsoft Windows Store, and finally got rid off from the automatically reappearing taskbar icon issue.